The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance in the body you have.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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